TIRESOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tiresome mean? 

• TIRESOME (adjective)
  The adjective TIRESOME has 1 sense:

1. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

  Familiarity information: TIRESOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIRESOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

Synonyms:

boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome

Context example:

other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome

Similar:

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)

Derivation:

tiresomeness (dullness owing to length or slowness)

 Context examples 

I think the dancing-school a tiresome affair, and wonder why the girls can't dance by themselves and leave us alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

'For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.'

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Harriet may not consider every body tiresome that you would.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What can he mean by being so tiresome as to be always coming here?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have three tiresome beasts here, said the other; if you will take them, give them food and room, and treat them as I tell you, I will pay you whatever you ask.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After these tiresome labors, she must do her lessons, which was a daily trial of every virtue she possessed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Oh! you may as well take back that tiresome book she would lend me, and pretend I have read it through.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Not to be tiresome, I shall say that I fetched the book from his state-room and read “Caliban” aloud.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The mother I could not avoid, as long as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with the housekeeper, but the son I can get away from.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So I have to stay shut up in these rooms all day, and it gets tiresome.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)